Mola

NameBlouse Fragment

CultureKuna; Cuna

Datec. 1960

Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America

MediumCotton

Dimensions20 1/16 × 19 5/16 in. (51 × 49 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.67.873

Object numberA.1979.67.873

Collections

Panamanian Molas

DescriptionAppliqued, commercial cotton, embroidered, rick-rack, multicolored on red ground. Large bat-winged, bird-headed animal with lion tail. Beak has two rows of white teeth and pink serpent tongue. Very fine embroidery on head, for eye and feet. Legend: "chacha."

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